Medicine-dispensing device



P. SELLERS.

MEDICINE DISPENSING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JULYIS. m9.

Patented Dec. 23, 1919.

INVENTOR. hb''illd JeZZens' ATTORNEY.

PRISCILLA SELLERS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

MEDICINE-DISPENSING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 23, 1919.

Application filed July 15, 1919. Serial No. 310,889.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PRISCILLA SnLLERs,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Medicine-Dispensing Devices, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention has reference to an improved medicine dispensing device.

The improvement is in the nature of a medicine spoon and is primarilydevised for administering a medicament to an infant or child indetermined quantities, the same constituting a spoon proper providedwith a handle and a medicament holder detachably connected to andcommunicating with the bowl of the spoon.

An object of the invention is to produce a medicine dispensing device ofthis character which shall be of an extremely simple construction, cheapto manufacture, readily cleaned, and one wherein the medicament may beadministered in an easy and expeditious manner without danger ofspilling or wasting portions thereof.

The foregoing objects, and others which will appear as the nature of theinvention is better understood may be accomplished 'by a simpleconstruction, combination and arrangement of parts such as isillustrated by the drawings.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improvement.

Fig. 2 is a central vertical longitudinal sectional view through thesame.

My improvement is broadly indicated by the numeral 3 and includes aspoon bowl 4: having a depending reduced neck 5 which has its outer endgradually widened to provide a portion which is round in cross sec tionand which has interior threads 6. Connecting the bowl 4: with the outerend of the enlarged portion of the neck is a rounded handle member 7.

The medicament container is indicated by the numeral 8 and may beconstructed of any desired material, glass preferred. This container isround in cross section and has its open end provided with exteriorthreads that are designed to coengage with the interior threads 6 in thewindened or enlarged end of the neck 5.

A determined quantity of a medicament is placed in the container 8. Thecontainer is then screwed on the neck of the spoon. The angulararrangement of the neck and the container with respect to the bowl 4permits of the said bowl being inserted in the mouth of a child orinfant without danger of the tongue of the latter being, contacted bythe medicament. The device is then canted or tilted upwardly so that allof the medicament from the container 8 will 'fiow through the neck 5 andbowl 4 into the mouth of the patient. The spoon proper and the containerbeing separable elements permit of the easy cleaning of the two partsthat constitute the improvement. The con tainer is of a size wherebyvarious doses of' administered in their full doses without danger of thepatient spilling the same.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

1. In a device for the purpose set forth, a spoon including a bowlhaving an angular neck connected thereto and communicating therewith andwhich is widened at its outer end and provided with internal threads, anintegral handle connecting the bowl and neck, and said neck designed tothreadedly engage with a medicament holder.

2. In a device for the purpose set forth, a spoon having its bowl at therear and deepest portion thereof provided with a reduced angularlydisposed neck which is gradually widened to the outer end thereof andthe said outer end being round and threaded, an integral rounded handleconnected at the rear of the bowl and widened outer end of the neck, anda medicament holder having a threaded open end engaging with the threadson the neck.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

PRIS GILLA SELLERS.

